Its been a crazy post Diwali November.Getting adjusted to the new house.Falling sick repeatedly due to diarrhea.Planning for January.Work getting a little hectic.This weekend I was completely engrossed in traveling and attending Grihapravesh-es.Have been listening to a lot of classic stuff-The Doors and Sabbath and esp Led Zep (OK what do call a Hippie's and a carpenter's ideal date?--- tripping on Doors ( apologies to Saanjh :-) ) ) .Also I am mostly dead on Orkut but pretty much there on Facebook ( due to company intranet filtering and 'coz I hate Powerscrap) with all its myriad applications which ask you to characterize people , poke your friends, put up your fav comic on your profile and do thousand more fun things.Really you should check it out.*
I have been buying books left right and center since the last five months and lately I have been able to catch up on reading instead of just admiring the bookshelf.
Books bought recently:
1.The diaries of Franz Kafka
2.Gravity's Rainbow
3.Madame Flaubert
4.A clockwork orange
5.Brave new World
6.Nirvana's Biography
7.Step across this line
8.The ground beneath her feet
9.A father and son
10.The code book
11.Dubliners
12.Above average
Among these I have only managed to read A father and son,Above average and Brave new world.All the rest are in unread or half-read stages.I was impressed by Brave new world and I would say it pretty much beats all other Dystopian themes by quite a margin.I like the irony and the grey ending of the book and they way that issues like purpose of life are explored without firmly sticking to one.Another post I did on Dystopia some time back here
Hopefully I would have something interesting to say next time around.Most probably I would be putting up some older posts which are in draft just 'coz I have put enough effort into them to delete them.
*I think that lately, all I have been doing is pimping various sites.I know people come to my blog just to navigate to other cooler pages but what to do, hardly anything interesting happens in my life. I have been told that everything that I do has an air of recklessness to it-including this blog.
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nothing interesting happening in your life? Arent there any long-haired girls in your work place? ;)
The number of books you ve bought has got me envious. One of the advantages of being a grossly over-paid Blore techie, eh? I cant wait to step over into that world. :)
How far have you progressed with Gravity's Rainbow?? Also, talking of dystopian themes, I read 1984, and it is absolutely incredible, not to say heartbreaking and depressing!!
and what the hell is this approval thing?? I think I just commented the same thing 3 or 4 times!!
Well the books should keep anyone busy for at least a month. Dubliners is ethereally beautiful, especially the last story. And the Kafka Diaries are obviously very good. I don't know if I liked this particular Rushdie book though...
and Facebook is way better than Orkut. agreed. all those applications are so addictive.
wow, what a list of books bought. Did you buy them all first hand, then it would have coasted a bomb. Reckless and Rajat, I thought they were antonyms.
one has to visit other pages only when you become an infrequent visitor to your own page
@Solitary Reaper: Grossly over-paid Blore techie holds only for people who have home here.For the rest of us its a steady sinking into the bog of bills,bills and more bills. :-)
@Niksworth:I have read some 30 pages of GR (!) and yes, now that I have heard so much about 1984 from so many people-I am buying it today!.The comment moderation has been disabled now
@Dreamcatcher:I have read just the first story in Dubliners.I like Diaries...its great to see what were the things which inspired/tormented Kafka.and yeah,there is not much real conversation that takes place on facebook but still its fun.
@Som:some of them were second hand-and it doesn't cost as much as you think.And I am reckless in my own quiet way ;-)
@Ankita:your observation is justified :-)
agree with the "grossly overpaid blore techie part" with you raj!
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hey cudn't think of a name... so.... am making do with this for now... and cud u pls give me some more feedback?
Uninteresting? That too ur life ?? I would kill for getting to lay my hands onto one of those beauties you`ve bought.What better way to spend wintry B`lore evenings curled up on ur couch, with one of those intriguing paperbacks in hand and yeah "tripping on Doors" :D !!
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